The Interior Ministry informed the Senate on Tuesday that the 567 cases of sexual abuse registered in Islamabad between 2021 and June 2025, 200 of them involved children.
The data informed by the Interior Ministry were presented in a written response to Senator Shahdhat Awan during a Senate session today.
Of the 200 cases of child sexual abuse, 93 of children’s victims were men and 108 were women.
The Ministry added that 222 accused parties were arrested, of which only 12 were convicted. 163 remain in trial, while 15 have been acquitted and 26 remain released.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said in the written statement that “according to reports obtained from all Islamabad police stations to (the) Zonal Police Superintendent, during the period from January 1, 2021 to June 20, 2025, (a) 567 cases of rape and 625 defendants were registered.”
“Of the 567 cases, 485 cases were challenged, 80 accused were convicted, 23 defendants were acquitted and accused in 406 cases still face a trial in the competent courts,” he said, adding: “29 cases are under investigation and will be concluded as soon as possible.”
According to the Ministry, 266 cases of missing children were also registered in Islamabad from 2022 to 2025. These included 153 boys and 120 girls reported missing.
From these cases, 135 accused were arrested and two sentenced, said the ministry, adding that 21 of the defendants were acquitted and 103 expected trial.
Separately, a total of 3,364 cases of child abuse of the four provinces, the territory of the capital of Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan in 2024, according to a report by the civil society of Sahil in May based on data collected from 81 national and regional newspapers throughout the country.
In July, the police arrested a man after a footage that allegedly showed him to a younger girl in the Kasur district of Punjab became viral online.
In June, the National Agency for Investigation of Cyber Crimes (NCCIA) presented to a child sexual exploitation gang that operates in Muzaffarh in Punjab, which led to the arrest of two suspects and the recovery of ten children.
In January 2018, the Police recovered the body of Zainab Amin, six years old, five days after it disappeared. A post Mortem exam suggested that it could have been raped before being strangled to death, causing outrage throughout the country.
More than two years after the case of Zainab, the National Assembly approved the draft alert, response and recovery of Zainab, 2019 that seeks to accelerate research and punishment for child abuse perpetrators.
